Kirk and jamesbond are happy to announce the release of Fatdog64 600 alpha2.
Fatdog64 600 is a major new release of Fatdog64 since Fatdog 521 and this alpha2 marks the first public release of the 600 series.
This release features hundreds of new packages re-compiled from T2 as well as new system infrastructure. As such, bugs are to be expected

Note: Fatdog64 600 does not update from 521._________________Fatdog64, Slacko and Puppeee user. Puppy user since 2.13.
Contributed Fatdog64 packages thread.Last edited by jamesbond on Fri 18 May 2012, 03:19; edited 5 times in total

Q5: I chose my locale and timezone at Live CD session and then created the savefile. When I rebooted next, my settings are gone. I can confirm that the savefile is there and it is being used.
A5: This is a known bug, it will be fixed on the next release. For now, just re-do your settings again (after you have rebooted using savefile), and it will be saved.

Q6: How do I enable multisession?
A6: At the boot command line type "fatdog savefile=direct:multi". If your DVD+RW is located in other than /dev/sr0, type the device name e.g. "fatdog savefile=direct:multi:sr1".

Q7: How do I use SFS in multisession mode?
A7: Not in this alpha. It sort of works but cause problems later. Will be fixed in next release.

Q8: Drive icons display slowly
A8: It should display within 3 seconds. If not, you can try the attached blkid patch below.

Great initiative guys, I wish you every success.
Will put a link on the wiki shortly.

Underdog - I want it. From what I understand it is relatively simple code and might be available for all Puppys?
Did you use Woof2 to create this new 600? I know the answer but thought I would ask just in case.

I am a great fan of Fotoxx and VLC (great just works programs)

I should not download it . . . but what fun . . ._________________Puppy WIKI

Great initiative guys, I wish you every success.
Will put a link on the wiki shortly.

Thank you.

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Underdog - I want it. From what I understand it is relatively simple code and might be available for all Puppys?

This is nothing new, it was available for puppy, then suffered bit rot, then revived back again. Fatdog didn't have this before - now it has

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Did you use Woof2 to create this new 600? I know the answer but thought I would ask just in case.

No. Fatdog came off Puppy4 lineage, when Puppy was still single-architecture oriented, and got enhanced with Woof code now and then when possible. It is now too far off to merge Fatdog back to Woof.

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I am a great fan of Fotoxx and VLC (great just works programs)

It is now available out of the box in 600

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I should not download it . . . but what fun . . .

Aaaah ... it's time to get off your berry fix and enjoy the true power of next-generation computing _________________Fatdog64, Slacko and Puppeee user. Puppy user since 2.13.
Contributed Fatdog64 packages thread.

We'll have a new kernel before final. I've add those modules to my config.

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e.g. gtk+ and python.

Some things are not the latest and sometimes that's by design. Python is only in the devx and is mainly there for packages that need it to compile. GTK+ on the other hand is a problem. We still need GTK2 (which is at the latest version for gtk2) for many apps, but some things now require GTK3. There just wasn't enough to justify the extra size of GTK3. Another factor is that we didn't put this together overnight. We started 600 back in February. At the time, James and my self had not talked about another release, but I had decided to rebuild all the base packages in T2 and James had been working on replacing the whole initrd from scratch. Then in mid March we got caught up about what each of us had been doing, and started putting everything together.

Kirk, jamesbond:
Thanks for the new fatdog64.
Downloaded and installed to ram but there seems to be no driver for my broadcom wifi so there was no point in installing. Hopefully you will include the broadcom drivers in a future release. Until then I'll make do quite well with the old version fatdog64.
irishrm.

Having trouble with download, it's missing the FATDOG64-600.sfs, so I'm unable to boot from my menu.lst. Also, configure grub4dos does not find Fatdog64-600. My download is 201M which seems to be the correct size. Same result from /ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/fatdog/iso/ and ibiblio. EDIT: Problem was that initrd is different and sfs is contained within initrd.

After solving above problem with the menu.lst, had a few others:

1. xorgwizard will not work.
2. EDIT2: Reboot, I thought wasn't working, however, it takes a long 8 minutes to create a save file and then finally reboots.

This is all I got from the terminal. Not much help I'm sure.
tar: Removing leading ‘/’ from member names.

That's OK. The file messages.tar.xz is probably in /root. Post it if you can find it. Good to hear the pet works. The wl pet package will only work with this kernel. When we change kernels it will have to be recompiled.

LateAdopter,

Yes, the lib to lib64 symlink can be a problem. Though a 64bit Ubuntu package should really install libraries to /lib64. Maybe we should bind mount /usr/lib to /usr/lib64. I'll have to think about that.

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